Thesaurus / swindling

swindling

How to use swindling in a sentence

No doubt he is,” replied Sam; “but how will you manage to haul him up and prove that he has been swindling the old woman?

In the latter capacity he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for swindling.

In a high point of view, it was simple embezzlement; it was little better than a form of swindling.

JULIAN HOMEDEAN FREDERIC W. FARRAR

Master hadn't led a life of gambling, swindling, and every kind of debotch to be good-tempered at the end of it, I prommis you.

The "House" was the Erie headquarters, the purpose being to illustrate the swindling methods of the Ring.

Not till I had been with you for several weeks did I learn that she was being used in a swindling scheme against Dick.

Rank swindling it seemed to me, but he explained afterwards that it was "our way of keeping down drunkenness, my boy."

DRY FISH AND WETANTHON BERNHARD ELIAS NILSEN

In the following year she was arrested in Berlin, after a fraudulent séance, and sentenced to one year in jail for swindling.

It appeared that Coysh had vowed to Royle that he would have no mercy on anybody who was swindling him, no matter who it might be.

It was planned as the swindling of a swindler—which, in fact, had now become the secret principle in Mary's morality.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985